BREAKING: A DC federal jury found the @FHFA wrongly amended stock purchase agreements related to the governments bailout of @FannieMae & @FreddieMac and awarded shareholders $612.4 million in damages, broken out as follows:
Sitting here trying to figure out how law enforcement can successfully deescalate a white domestic terrorist in a truck threatening to blow up the Capitol with a bomb but not a Black man who fell asleep in his car?
There is profound consensus in both mainstream political parties to expand the greatest system of mass human caging in modern world history. 90% of the millions caged and separated families are poor, and U.S. cages Black people 6 times the rate of South Africa during Apartheid.
This is a proposal that recognizes housing as a human right, child care as vital infrastructure, and lifts up working families. I'm so moved thinking of all of our neighbors whose lives will be changed because of this through housing, dignified wages, and monthly income payments.
Minimum wage workers would need to work 97 hours per week, or more than 2 full-time jobs, to afford a modest 2-bedroom rental, per @NLIHC
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Just took away health care coverage for over 200,000 working Missourians, coverage Missourians voted for, because elected officials didn't care what We the People had to say.
Bad for Missouri. Bad for families. Bad for the economy.
That's the leadership we have.
Not sure how to process non-Black middle and upper class people getting Juneteenth off, while Black poor and working class people don't.
This really has been sitting on my heart.
If folks are available tonight at 7pm, there’s a @mdc_dsa training to better understand the #STAYDC program AND help you apply.
It’s federal rental assistance for tenants and everyone should know how to access it!
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.@councilofdc should NOT weaken protections when relief programs are not yet equipped to help tenants. The Federally-funded STAYDC program has received over 10,000 applications but hasn’t paid out a single award. And ERAP is running out of funds: https://t.co/3Que5wGCry
The DC jail has been on medical lockdown for 394 days. Sign our petition to call on DC leaders to make and implement a plan NOW to end the lockdown. https://t.co/LBRkUVhiwg
.@ourcityRTTC frames the issue of social housing as “rooted in the belief that housing is a human right, not a commodity to maximize profits.”
Our latest brief looks at the ways that @HUDgov could help expand our social housing sector.
cc: @aforhj
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